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THE YOUNG STAGERS

would you rather have the Invasion of Britain, or the Forty Thieves?"

The Invasion he knew, and the Thieves he knew, but what was Judgment Day?

"Will you be a Miserable Sinner, an Ancient Briton, or a Forty Thief?" continued the President.

"What d'you have to do, if you've a Mitherable Thinner?" inquired the Vice.

"Oh, be tried on Judgment Day," was the reply. "If found guilty, you'd go to Hell. That would make a fine Hell for Miserable Sinners," and she pointed to the fire-enclosing basket.

"What would you be, if I was a Mitherable Thinner?" queried the junior official.

"God," was the prompt reply. "I should sit on a Throne and judge you. . . . I might have to send you to Hell."

"What would I do there?" asked the Vice doubtfully.

"Burn," replied the President sepulchrally.

The Vice preferred to bear a hand in the Invasion of Britain, or in resisting the same.